Nikola Lazarov⁠ is CEO at ⁠Eilla, a UK based Generative AI platform that powers the M&A, VC and PE deal workflow. Eilla mirrors the highest quality finance professionals to automate mundane tasks and support complex decision-making.

We talk on the podcast about starting and growing his business, and how he goes about building that early start up team around him.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested, and who are they?

3. How do you think about #EthicalAI and #ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you attract talent as you grow?

5. What is your ambition for both you and your business?

Nikola joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talk about the continued promotion of development of GenAI into the world of M&A, VC and PE.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Amanda Brock is CEO at Open UK⁠, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology –  open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open standards  and  open AI - with a purpose of UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 24 taking place 6 and 7 February 2024 in London.

An appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board; and both UKRI’s UK Exescale Science and Industry Advisory Board and Digital Research Infrastructure Advisory Board.  She is a commercial Advisory Board Member at California Cyber Security company Mimoto and at the Scottish Geo Spatial Data company Space Aye. She is also an Advisory Board Member of KDE and a European Representative of the Open Invention Network.

We talk on the podcast about the State of Open Con 2024 event that is taking place in London in early February, discussing some of the focus around AI including speakers and activities and opportunities to engage.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How will you promote #EthicalAI and #ResponsibleAI?

5. What is your ambition for the event?

Amanda joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talk about the continued promotion of Open Data, tech and now AI.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

William (Wes) Shields is Founder and Principal at

Recognized as one of the first 18 global "OpenAI Experts," formally by Upwork and OpenAI, and their Professor Synapse Prompt reached #5 on the Productivity Chart in OpenAI ChatGPT.

We talk on the podcast about the shared purpose that has driven and evolved Synthminds, and how Wes has put exploration, discovery and sharing at the heart of everything they do.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and #ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for Synthminds?

Wes joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talk about the search for shared passion and curiosity in this new world of Generative AI.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Andrew Bud CBE FREng FIET is Founder and CEO at iProov, which provides science-based face biometric authentication solutions to governments and enterprises around the world. The company’s multi-dimensional Biometric Solutions Suite enables organizations to offer remote onboarding and authentication for secure and effortless digital and physical access. 

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and #ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for iProov?

Andrew joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and more including the impact of Generative AI and finding trust in created content.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Nicolai Thomson is CEO and Co-Founder at Jenesys AI,

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and #ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for Jenesys?

Nicolai joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talks about some of the progress they are making in helping organisations accelerate the pace of the finance function in the Operating Model, and its interactions across the supply chain.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Axel Leo is an AI co-founder at ⁠⁠⁠Accelleo.com⁠⁠⁠, a 'born in GenAI' recruitment organisation that uses AI and Generative AI to help connect people to opportunities in a more effective way than the resource intensive approach of many organisations in this space.

*** THIS IS A ONE OFF AI GUEST SPECIAL ***

*** CEO founders have already been booked in for the next 3 episodes ***

Accelleo was created by a group of experienced executives who felt that this space was in need of improvement, who engaged a range of AI and Generative AI tools to help accelerate its development and launch. Axel Leo is a representative of this combination, originally introduced in this article published on LinkedIn in Summer 2023.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for Accelleo?

Axel joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talks about the background of Accelleo and the AI perspective on why it is needed. Note that Axel is a trained AI Team Member "Agent", sitting in a secure area of Azure OpenAI.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Danielle Ralic is CEO and Founder at ⁠⁠Ancora.ai⁠⁠, an organisation that connects people diagnosed with cancer to a clinical trial of a treatment that could potentially help.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for Ancora.ai?

Danielle joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talks about some examples of the engagement that people in Switzerland, the UK and beyond, have with Ancora.ai to help make a real difference to people's lives at a time of need.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Meryem Arik is CEO and Founder at ⁠TitanML⁠, an organisation that supports the clients to deliver faster, cheaper, and easier LLM deployments.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for TitanML?

Meryem joins ⁠⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talks about some examples of the work that TitanML is involved in delivering today across the UK and US.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

Deepak Tewari⁠⁠⁠⁠ is CEO and Founder at Privately, an Age Verification solution that operates at the edge, rather than centralised. Based out of Lausanne, Switzerland, Privately is used for age verification and online safety in apps, gaming, and environments where age verification is needed, for example buying alcohol.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #EthicalAI and ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for Privately?

Deepak joins ⁠⁠Rob Price⁠⁠ to answer these questions, and talks about some examples of the work that Privately is involved in delivering today across the EU, UK and US.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]

David Doyle⁠ is CEO and co-founder at ⁠Forestreet, an AI Research platform that supports any Market or Product Category anywhere in the world. Based out of London, UK, Forestreet is used by in a range of use cases - category managers in procurement looking to determine best value, investors looking to verify market competition and more.

2. Why should people and businesses be interested?

3. How you ensure #ResponsibleAI?

4. How do you find the right #AI talent?

5. What is your vision for Forestreet?

David joins ⁠Rob Price⁠ to answer these questions, and talks about some real examples of the work that Forestreet is delivering today in providing near real-time information, clear of commercial bias, for any category in any place in the world.

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#Futurise is a podcast produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Futuria.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an Agentic AI platform that helps businesses re-imagine their operating model in the #AI and #GenAI age. You can message us at [email protected]